Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-01-18
THEY COME HIGH.
Tho Price Paid by an Excitable Man fol-
Grand Bed-Bug Hunt.


Grand Ised-Bug Hunt.
"IIow potent for COOL or evil are
the little things of this life and this
world" moralized gentleman whose
business takes him past the post-oflice
corner several times each day.
C.ing-g-gl
20, you neod not ring your chest
nut bell on ms. The sentiment has
nutty flavor, know, but the appliea-
ton is entirely original. Most people
believe that all small things are tribes,
J and there's where big error creeps
\ into their calculat ons. 'Creeps.'
That's just the word | was cropping
around after TO express my application.
| refer to bed-bugs. They are small
things, but no tritics. They aro more
expensive, weight for weight, than
tirst-water dlamonds!'
Had to buy new bedstcad and sell
the old one TO secondhand dealer,
ehp"
"If that WAS all wouldn't mention
it. No, sir, one little tramping, med
dlesome bed bug has just cost m, more
than \ hot,l clerk headlight is worth.
I'll tell you what the parasitical little
wretch did to me. The first thing he
did to me WAS to galiop up AID down
my back and wake ma up. 1 made
grab, or rather fren lied series of
grabs, for him, but waar perforated
undersh rt, and the way he wove in
and out through the m shes nulliied
all the grabbing l was capable of.
One would imagine that when
healthy muscular man, Weighing one
hundrld and sixty poulls assaults a
poor, lonely insect, an immediate and
hurried rstreat would b, made by the
party of thesocond part, but this wasn't
that kind of a bug. He found an im-
pregnable position Up between my
shoulders and commenced crocheting
my uudershrt as If it WIS fun. Twist
ing my right arm ovct behind my ear
dealt vicious AMI rcsonn ling thum2s
a' far down my back as | could reach.
Then | retr1ated in disorder and nearly
lislocated my left arm in making n
sortie from the opposite direction
What in the world are You about?'
inquired my wife in sweet and mellow
tones that she brought with her from
Vermont, the drumming having dis
turbed her slumbers.
"'rrying to smash (thump) an in
formal bed bug (thump), and l cal't
(thump) reach him.
" Three strikes, outr shouted my
wife, laughing.
Hang b,1-bugl, AMI biso ball and
all o,h3r postsr' responded |, and rs
soon rs commenced to talk excitedly |
that bug mizzle rs il he had been an
umpire in Kansas City.
"After my wife got through aughing,
she said she would have the bed ovc.-
hauled and reduce'its census next day.
| was not present at the investigation,
but have no doubt that it was
thorough, for when | went home the
next day to dinner, there was none;
wife sa d she and the girl had boen too
busy, and | don't think she lied about |
it. In the back yard | found several |
sections OF disc lucag1d an disiointed |
bedstead, One leg was broken, the |
head-board was split. the varni,h hal |
mostly b,ea turned white with boiling |
water, ald its breath snelt of soap |
suds AMI turp ne. The springs |
loosel rs if the Marquis OF Queens. |
berry had got mad ut them; tho mat
tress hal been 'bestcd' in an encounter
with Il nail or hook; the children had
been betting each other with the p;i-
lows until they looked as il they were
and the carpet was strug-
Cling to overthrow the alley fence
"'We've looked every where for
that bug and can't find him. Are you
sure you folt onea' procla med and in
qulred my wife.
"Wai sure felt onep" Think OF
that for question!
"Wcll. nay wife remarked that mas
much as the bug might be hidden in
the wallpaper or in crack of the
floor, it would BE- we'll to repaint and
repap,r the room, and | weekly con
scnted. Once the painters and papor
hangers were inside the house, every
carpet came up, and for II fortnight l
slept in the kitchen beside the cook
stove. l paid the bill this morning =
three hundred and twenty-five dollars.
"Tho bug? o, he escaped DE
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